Comments by "Vikki McDonough" (@vikkimcdonough6153) on "Battle of Tsushima - When the 2nd Pacific Squadron thought it couldn't get any worse..." video.

Agreed wholeheartedly. By any reasonable standard, the voyage of the 2nd Pacific Squadron (and the 3rd as well, to be perfectly frank) was a success; they made it from the Baltic Sea to the Tsushima Strait, recoaling the entire fleet at sea multiple times along the way, without drydocking at any point, without losing a single ship, despite the sheer rank incompetence that was endemic in many of the ships' officers and men for large parts of the voyage (and which Admiral Rozhestvensky was actually mostly able to beat out of them by the time they'd reached Tsushima). The fact that the fleet then got largely wiped out by the Japanese fleet (and, even then, they fought hard and bravely) is no detraction from the success of the preceding voyage.
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26:42 - That ensign wasn't actually Isoroku Yamamoto at the time; he was only adopted into the Yamamoto family in 1916. At the time of Tsushima, he would've still been Isoroku Takano.
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She also helped transfer Rozhestvensky from Buinyi over to Biedovi after Buinyi's machinery broke down, and took on both Buinyi's crew and over 200 survivors from Oslyabya that the destroyer'd been carrying when she had to scuttle Buinyi to keep it from being captured. And, when she was finally cornered and badly damaged by a large number of Japanese warships in the late afternoon of the second day, having made it nearly halfway from the main battle site to Vladivostok, she managed to drop anchor near Ulleung Island and get everyone ashore before scuttling, with only 60 dead out of nearly a thousand on board at that point (Dmitrii Donskoi's own officers and men, plus the crew of Buinyi, plus the Oslyabya survivors from Buinyi). (Oh, and the third torpedo boat, the one that wasn't sunk by Dmitrii Donskoi? She was lost in a collision with the destroyer Akatsuki... who'd been captured from the Russians nine and a half months previously at the Battle of the Yellow Sea.)
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@bogdangabrielonete3467 Rozhestvensky managed to beat the vast majority of that out of the fleet's officers and men by the time they got to Tsushima itself, though. Recall that the same captains who'd been sneaking off to get drunk in Kronstadt and kicking back in their cabins getting high in Nossi-Be now led their ships into battle, sometimes multiple times, mostly without hesitation; that the gunners who couldn't hit the broad side of a battleship at either Dogger Bank or Nossi-Be now landed shells just a stone's throw from Mikasa with their very first salvo and, soon afterwards, drew first blood in the battle, landing multiple main-battery hits on Mikasa before the Japanese gunners had hit the Russian ships even once; that the men whose training had to start out with "what are ships" and "what is the sea" now fought bravely to patch holes, shore up bulkheads, and keep blazing away at the Japanese ships with whatever guns hadn't been blown to pieces even as their ships plunged beneath their feet.
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4:11 - Wow. Where did you find that graphic?
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